Where are the mods?

[Neck Hard]

As soon as i install a mod it doesn't work on steam? :O

[Piloto09]

You need the 3.9 unofficial patch and patch resources to install and run most of the mods for Total Annihilation. You can find and download both at https://www.tauniverse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43735
You can also finds mods and maps there.

[Zhikaka]

Steam version is TA+CC+BT+3.1c(non-BY)+6(official units released after 3.1)+(the officially released downloadable)maps+TADR99B2

Anything extra you have to launch directly from the executable, which I recommend.

Also, there are so many great extra maps by the community, and the resource files required to run them, outside the officially released Cavedog maps. Check out some of the map packs linked in the pinned post.



edit: I read maps instead of mods :D

, so no, Steam does not include even 3.9 (latest community patch to the original game), or any mods.

The most played mod by far is Escalation, which can be installed with an installer so that it creates a folder f.e. TOTALA/TA Escalation/ where you can alternate which totala.exe you launch, the original or the modded one.

On Game Ranger you can enter a room and hit Ctrl+e to determine which exe you want the GameRanger platform to launch, f.e.

..TOTALA/totala.exe for the original

or

..TOTALA/TA Escalation/totala.exe for the Escalation mod.

similarly launching them from the folder/shotcuts for single player, as Steam only results into crashing when trying to launch anything modded.

[Regular]

This is completely untrue, you do not need to install the 3.9 patch in order for mods to run. If the mod requires the patch, get it, but it's not needed for every single mod.

Go to the containing folder in your steamapps/common/TotalAnnihilation folder and run the .exe straight from there.

Optionally, you can Copy+Paste the entire folder of a clean installation of TA into your common folder and have an additional one for mods. Provided you run the .exe straight from the directory, the game should load.